Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "UK to send Challenger II tanks to Ukraine: An end to the West's tank taboo? | DW News" video.

  1. Ukraine threw its sovereignty out the window in the 2014 coup.
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  2. i thought the himars were the real game changers? and the Javelins? remember that.."more javelins"! and the stingers and M777s, both game changers. but you say the REAL game changers are Leopard tanks? hmmm.
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  3. I'm sure the Ukrainian teenagers cannon fodder recruits will master handling all these tanks in just a few days.
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  4.  @markusdee6136  what? so to add insult to injury, Ukraine gets the cast-offs? the junk? just pathetic.
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  5. Ukraine started this war with tanks galore. they got destroyed by Russia. Ukraine claims it acquired loads or Russian tanks abandoned in Kharkov. I guess they got destroyed by Russia. ex Warsaw pact countries already gave their Soviet era tanks to Ukraine, and they got destroyed by Russia. Now, Zaluzhny says he needs 300 more tanks. why would anyone think this next batch of tanks won't get destroyed by Russia?
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  6. Western stance has become a sick joke. Air raid alerts did NOT go off, all targets were hit, we can assume Ukraine has no effective air defence system and NATO is powerless to solve this, Russians are not running out of missiles, a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just defeated NATO trained, armed and advised battalions in Soledar, 49% of Germans now say they DON'T want tanks sent to Ukraine, and the UK plays its trump card to turn this around.....12 tanks! hard to keep a straight face.
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  7.  @DarkRoomAmbience  and now the truth. 1) Russia never tried to capture Kiev. are you crazy? street fighting in a city of 3 million people? so, no, javs didn't prevent anything in Kiev. however, pinning down masses of Ukrainian forces around Kiev and around Kharkov DID enable Russia to seize its land corridor from Crimea to Russia. 2) how many Russian ammo dumps and soldiers were destroyed by himars? try to give a number not quoted from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. 3) if all this weaponry "changed the game", how come Russia took Mariupol, Lysychansk, Severdonestsk, Popasnaya, and, with a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, Soledar? Looks like the game changer was arming Russian convicts! Hope that cleared things up for you, whatever your real name is
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  8.  @polarstorm5986  K12002010 offered a detailed and reasoned argument somewhat superior to yours, I must say!
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  9. just means more people will be killed and Russia will still win.
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  10.  @paulmatters2641  great idea! given the permanent rail strikes in the IK, no need of any tank engines there! so, yeah, how difficult can it be? learn which button is forward, which one is reverse (could be very useful, that one), and then operating a real tank should be a piece of cake.
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  11.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  only to friends of Russia. to the enemies of Russia, its unavailable.
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  12.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  who said they weren't buying Russian gas? Russian energy exports increased dramatically last year to Europe.
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  13. good chance they will be destroyed, just like all the other tanks so far, by Russia, before they get on the battlefield.
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  14. 49% of Germans say they DON'T want Germany to send tanks. 40% say they DO. Might be political suicide to go against the 49% and just hope Ukraine can avoid defeat.
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